Example sentences of "time [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MacCabe and Heath had studied in Paris , and Signs of the Times has its niche in postwar cultural history , marking the first major re-entry of French intellectual influences since Eliot 's adherence to Remy de Gourmont and the French neoclassicists , half a century earlier . |
| 2 | How many times has one ever had recourse to a term like anadiplosis ? |
| 3 | I mean how many times has somebody knocked on your door , Oh I 'm Joe Bloggs I 've come to sell dusters ? |
| 4 | I know I pulled him out once but how many times has he pulled me out ! |
| 5 | how many times has he , has he done this to us now ? |
| 6 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 7 | How many times has it happened ? |
| 8 | Yeah but how many , how many times has it been a shop ? |
| 9 | I mean , how many times has someone tried to re-invent the fret ? |
| 10 | ‘ He has , you must agree , a remarkably clear idea of policy , if the topography of God 's Kingdom at times eludes him a trifle . |
| 11 | The pro-Jewish New York Times describes him as ‘ tall , handsome and affable ’ . |
| 12 | An eighty four year old man who 's had his house broken into seven times says he now fears for his safety . |
| 13 | And the rhythm of her dialogue in some of the later books at times recalls his free hexameters . |
| 14 | But the fact that it is protected by unwritten convention rather than by a legal constitution means that there is no external brake upon Parliament or the courts moving to restrict it in particular ways , as the mood of the times takes them . |
| 15 | However , subsequent thinkers have often seen his claim as in effect about the meaning of the word ‘ good ’ and Moore himself at times expresses himself thus . |
| 16 | An editorial in The Times sums it all up : |
| 17 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |
| 18 | Rod Wallace needs to work on his finishing , how many times does he miss when he 's clean through ? |
| 19 | How many times does anybody see them ? |
| 20 | The Times claims its circulation has soared by 20pc since it launched the circulation war on Monday . |
| 21 | It has to be admitted that the sound quality on some of these recordings at times leaves something to be desired , and some listeners may no doubt be disturbed by the occasional fluctuations of pitch , as in the Lohengrin Prelude . |
| 22 | Then when the times comes there are likely to be serious doubts about how to interpret the terms of a Living Will . |
| 23 | Measurement of all pulse arrival times makes it possible to calculate the change in pulse delay due to the change in the distance of PSR 1913 + 16 from Earth . |
| 24 | My letter to The Times makes my own position clear . |
| 25 | But then the alien disease , like a parasite , takes hold again and for a time destroys everything in its path : all hope , all trust , all honesty , all love , all relationships . |
| 26 | Because such objects gain value as time elapses it means that a profit can be realised by anyone patient enough to conceal them for twenty years . |
| 27 | Whatever South Africa were before our time has nothing to do with this Test . |
| 28 | ‘ Time has nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 29 | Althusser therefore criticizes the Annales historians for merely arguing that periodizations differ for different times , and that each time has its own rhythms . |
| 30 | Time has me dangling on its tenterhooks . |